The Bot Of Legends Leak Put 148,438 Accounts at Risk of Takeover

HEROIC analysts identified 148,438 exposed accounts tied to Bot Of Legends, a gaming forum breach dated November 13, 2014. The exposed data includes email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored in plaintext, meaning there was no hashing standing between an attacker and each user's actual password.

Why Plaintext Passwords Lead Straight to Account Takeover

Because these passwords were never hashed, anyone who obtained the Bot Of Legends database could read every password exactly as it was typed, with no cracking required. That turns a simple data breach into an immediate account takeover risk: attackers don't need time or computing power to use these credentials, they can try them the moment the data is in hand.

What Was Exposed in the Bot Of Legends Breach

• Email addresses
• Usernames
• Plaintext passwords

Why This Matters for Bot Of Legends Users

If you ever created an account on Bot Of Legends and reused that password anywhere else, that other account is at risk today. Attackers feed leaked email and plaintext password pairs directly into automated tools that test them against banking sites, email providers, and social media platforms, a tactic called credential stuffing, with no delay for cracking involved.

How This Database Breach Happened

This incident is classified as a database breach, meaning attackers gained direct access to the forum's user database rather than collecting data through malware. Storing passwords in plaintext instead of hashing them meant that once attackers reached the database, all 148,438 sets of credentials were immediately usable, with no additional cracking step required.

Check If You Are Affected by the Bot Of Legends Breach

You don't need to guess whether your information was part of the Bot Of Legends breach or any other leak. HEROIC's free breach scanner checks your email address against a database of more than 400 billion leaked records and shows you exactly what was exposed. If you find a match, change the password on any account still using it and enable multi-factor authentication where you can.